Letters 04-13-10

Tuesday

Apr 13, 2010 at 8:13 AMApr 13, 2010 at 8:14 AM

Following the Constitution

It seems some Liberals, Democrats and others still think President George Bush was not a legitimate President because popular vote did not elect him. The final electoral votes (Florida) were awarded to Bush by the Supreme Court on a 7-2 vote (including two Liberal Justices) making him President.

It is time to stop using the same old story that Bush was an illegitimate president; he became president according to the Constitution.

We may not like the outcome of an election, but if we follow the rule of law we must accept it and stop whining, like some of these people do.

R.J. Smith

Hesperia

Even the IRS agrees

Re: "Out of context" (Donna Pelonis, Letters, April 11).

It seems Ms. Pelonis disagrees with the statements in a letter by David Hansen regarding Obamacare and the Internal Revenue Service. Sometimes after multiple people write over a period of multiple days we can get very confused by a lot of "facts". So either Mr. Hansen is mostly right or Ms. Pelonis is mostly right. You can't have it both ways.

Page 3 in the same edition of the Daily Press prints an article headlined, "Commissioner admits IRS role in health care." IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the agency could withhold tax refunds if it determined a taxpayer did not have mandatory health-care coverage. Further, every individual and most businesses are required to report to the IRS, on their tax returns, whether they have purchased or provided the required level of health coverage.

Again a quote, "People will get letters from us, we can actually do collections if need be "

I am not taking sides, just quoting the IRS Commissioner.

Helen Harvey

Apple Valley

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Donna Pelonis thanks David Hansen for proving her point that "...Obamacare does not include prison sentences and IRS 'enforcers.' This is just another lie from the right."

Suppose the IRS was actually designated to verify compliance to the purchase and maintenance of federally mandated insurance coverage? Suppose that the IRS was actually the designated authority to propose a penalty for non-compliance? What other purpose could be supposed, other than reporting and enforcement.

One could imagine a variety of methods and processes set in place to assure universal compliance. Withhold a legitimate tax refund? Initiate a lengthy, detailed tax audit? Impose a wage garnishment? Recommend an indictment on charges of insurance evasion? Well, you can take it from there perhaps, all the way to a stay in a federal penitentiary.

I realize this is just right-wing, knee-jerk, reactionary, tea party speculation. The federal government would never do such a thing.

One last thing: I noticed in the April 11 edition the headline, "Commissioner admits IRS role in health care."

John Smith

Apple Valley

It's just politics

Daniel Seagondollar's suit against Apple Valley Town Council member Peter Allan, filed with California's Fair Political Practices Commission a couple of weeks ago, seems like an attempt by Mr. Seagondollar not to stop the Town's takeover of the Apple Valley Country Club, but to increase his chances for a seat on the Town Council. He said in the suit that Mr. Allan had a conflict of interest in matters regarding the club because Mr. Allan attended Town Council meetings about negotiations for the club while he was "a board member of the golf course, and as a councilman voting on the project" (quoted in the Daily Press, April 1).

Mr. Seagondollar wants to be a council member, I guess, because he thinks he can do a better job than other members of the council, including Peter Allan. But people who don't do their homework (Mr. Allan was never a member of the club's board of directors, and Mr. Seagondollar should have known that fact) before they make allegations or file lawsuits don't seem to me to be worthy of voters' trust.

The biggest opponent of the Town's takeover of the club is councilman Rick Roelle. In 2008 Mr. Roelle and Mr. Seagondollar campaigned together for seats on the council. Mr. Seagondollar finished third, and he'll try again for sure. His suit against Peter Allan was just politics, and he's still running as Mr. Roelle's partner. Both want to renege on the approval of the golf course takeover by a 3-1 council vote last fall, and the suit is part of that.

John Felicione

Apple Valley

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